Update: The 2016-2020 Award Scheme โ€“ summary of entries

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Update Mar 7, 2021. We regret that, due to an oversight, four submissions from Tim Chalk were not published previously or included in the following summary. This has now been remedied and we apologise for the delay.


This, the sixth scheme, has had a record number of entries, boosted in part by time available due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Visitors to the website are encouraged to submit comments on any or all of the sundials, using the reply box at the bottom of each page, on aspects such as design, craftsmanship and overall function of the dial. These comments will help the Trustees to choose the entries for particular Awards.

In summary, we have a large โ€˜monumentalโ€™ dial in Malaysia; a restoration of very old polyhedral dial; a โ€˜first ventureโ€™ to commemorate a ruby wedding; the restoration of a stained glass window dial; a number of dials (conventional and unconventional) by experts in Cambridge; an obelisk for a garden in Cornwall; a novel altitude dial linked to human activities rather than just the hours, and a number of precision dials of different types cut in slate.

1. David Brown โ€“ The Re-birth of a Large Polyhedral Sundial
2. The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, Cambridge โ€“ An Islamic-Inspired Horizontal Sundial in Jeddah
3. The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, Cambridge โ€“ A Portable Stereographic Sundial on the End-Flap of a Book
4. The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, Cambridge โ€“ A Horizontal Garden Sundial in Rutland
5. Tim Chalk โ€“ Dollar Academy Sundial
6. Tim Chalk โ€“ Gleneagles House Sundial
7. Tim Chalk โ€“ โ€œA Year In The Life Of The Manx Shearwaterโ€ Sculptural Sundial
8. Tim Chalk โ€“ Crieff Hydro Sundial
9. The Didsbury Parsonage Trust โ€“ The Replacement Stained Glass Sundial in Didsbury, Manchester
10. David Hawker โ€“ A Ruby Wedding Vertical Sundial in Sutton, Surrey
11. Inscriptorum of Sundborn, Sweden โ€“ A Vertical Wall Sundial in South Cambridgeshire
12. Martin Jenkins โ€“ The Battle of Britain 80th Anniversary Sundial
13. Martin Jenkins โ€“ Janetโ€™s Dial
14. Martin Jenkins โ€“The Rotating Polar Mean Time Dial
15. Martin Jenkins โ€“ The Socrates Plato Dial
16. Dial withdrawn.
17. Syed Kamarulzaman โ€“ Ta Ha Sundial, Sepang, Malaysia
18. Frank King โ€“ A Portable Stereographic Face Mask Sundial
19. Tool/Toy Project โ€“ The Circadian Yardstick
20. The Voss Obelisk โ€“ A Pair of Declining Reclining Slate Dials in Cornwall